Blacktown City Council

Blacktown local government area

Area in Sydney's west governed by Blacktown City Council. Part of the traditional lands of the Darug people, it became known as 'The Blacks Town' in the 1820s when the Native Institution moved there from Parramatta. It is the most populous local government area in NSW and one of the fastest growing.

Croatians

A scattering of Croatian migrants arrived in Sydney during the nineteenth century, but most Croatian Sydneysiders came here because of war and upheaval in their home country in the twentieth century. After World War II, when Yugoslavia came into being, many leftist Croatians went home, leaving en masse in 1948-49, and being replaced by another wave of immigrants, fleeing Communism and poverty. These Croatians have preserved their culture and identity in their new city.